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This statement is 100% accurate. Whilst we all think (along with 99.9% of the football community of English football) that are PSR is a stupid rule, we knew the rules and still decided to somehow allow our wage bill to be more than our income. Unless you’re pumping money in from somewhere else, that is just shooting yourself in the foot. All I can think (to which we’ll never know the answer) was that we were going to get further external income though advertising, sponsorship, TV Revenue etc and it just hasn’t materialised. If they’d have had any sense; they would have capitalised on getting some form of TV series like “All or nothing”, “This is Wrexham” etc. We haven’t commercialised our rise to be a big club in the slightest and that is just bonkers. Let’s be honest, even if it was In-house and cost £30, loads of us would have watched it. If we use the matrix of social media following (assumed Facebook, Twitter/X, Instagram, YouTube and TikTok) as a benchmark mark of popularity for a football club, we would be 30th in World Football. When you consider that, our failings are even deeper than we all maybe discredit our offpitch commercial performance team. Rank Club Country Total (M) FB (M) IG (M) X (M) TT (M) YT (M) 1 Real Madrid Spain 473.7 129.3 180.0 91.5 62.4 10.5 2 Barcelona Spain 427.4 120.0 142.1 86.6 57.2 21.5 3 Man United England 233.6 85.1 66.1 44.8 29.3 8.3 4 PSG France 199.4 53.1 64.4 25.5 47.4 9.0 5 Man City England 179.5 54.9 56.3 28.9 31.2 8.2 6 Juventus Italy 174.9 47.5 60.0 17.7 39.8 9.9 7 Liverpool England 166.7 51.7 48.2 31.6 25.0 10.2 8 Chelsea England 152.9 56.5 42.6 29.2 18.7 5.9 9 B. Munich Germany 149.1 62.7 44.1 18.4 26.5 4.8 10 Arsenal England 114.1 45.8 31.6 23.3 11.1 4.3 11 Tottenham England 108.1 25.1 18.2 22.4 40.6 4.1 12 Atlético Madrid Spain 80.2 18.6 17.9 8.8 32.1 2.8 13 AC Milan Italy 78.3 29.0 17.5 9.1 21.3 1.4 14 Inter Milan Italy 70.2 33.4 13.2 6.5 15.6 1.5 15 Al-Nassr Saudi 62.0 4.5 28.5 16.5 12.0 0.5 16 Flamengo Brazil 60.5 15.2 21.8 10.5 10.2 2.8 17 B. Dortmund Germany 60.2 17.4 20.9 12.1 8.2 1.6 18 Al-Ahly Egypt 57.7 16.1 12.5 19.6 8.5 1.0 19 Galatasaray Turkey 53.7 11.2 16.5 17.4 7.1 1.5 20 AS Roma Italy 41.8 10.4 8.2 4.5 17.3 1.4 21 Corinthians Brazil 41.6 11.5 14.1 7.9 6.5 1.6 22 Fenerbahçe Turkey 39.1 9.8 11.5 14.3 2.5 1.0 23 Inter Miami USA 38.4 5.2 17.3 4.5 10.8 0.6 24 Al-Hilal Saudi 37.7 4.8 12.1 14.3 5.5 1.0 25 Persib Bandung Indonesia 33.1 11.5 8.2 4.5 8.0 0.9 26 Club América Mexico 30.3 12.1 6.5 5.5 5.2 1.0 27 Boca Juniors Argentina 30.3 9.2 9.8 5.5 4.8 1.0 28 River Plate Argentina 29.6 9.6 8.8 5.8 4.2 1.2 29 Ajax Holland 26.9 5.2 8.9 2.1 9.9 0.8 30 Leicester City England 24.5 9.5 7.8 2.8 3.5 0.9 If you consider this, as the benchmark for what is a big club now. We’d be 7th in England with 24.5m followers, albeit we are way of the greedy six. Shocker I know. By comparison, Forest have 4.5m followers. In fact to take this a step further, we have more than Forest, Leeds, Brentford, Brighton and the Hollywood Darlings Wrexham combined. People bang on about Celtic and Rangers joining the English League system. They’ve got 18m combined! It is a bit tongue in cheek but if we have a target audience that is clearly following us, we haven’t engaged with them to leverage our success and really capitalise on our “brand”. I think this is because they push King Power largely and not Leicester City, which in reality, no one outside of football really cares about. “We’ve got a bigger social media following than you, you’ll never sing that”. Is maybe something we can sing at all of League One next season. The current 24 clubs total 15.5m followers, some 9m short of us! Rant and being over dramatic over. You get my point though.

Can you imagine Okoli and Amartey as your centre back partnership.

He might have a 50p head and he needs to improve that, however no centre back at the club is going to find it easy, playing with Okoli. You’d be playing on edge constantly. He needs a proper experienced defender next to him. I like Vestergaard in relatively comparison to most of this forum, albeit he has serious limitations. I think Nelson is a similar sort of player and won’t ever really be anything more than that. That still most likely makes him out first choice centre back. He needs a Johnny Evans type next to him, to get the best out of him, as Soyuncu did previously.

I fully agree with all of this. It also annoys me that the EPL and EFL seem to be making this up as they go along. It is just a joke really and I sort of go from thinking our board is a bunch of fools to even challenge it, to let’s just kick back at the incompetence of the football authorises, who are just as useless as the people running us.

I’ll add Daka ran his socks off as well.

I don’t know what Ayew does in training to justify being anywhere near that team. I rather play Monga, Page, or Choudhury up top on his own and just let them press.

Skipp and Winks have been immense tonight.

Ayew has done nothing to justify not getting a 1 rating. Sky Sports discussing Page having no sponsor.

Winks is angry with Ayew!!!

What is Ayew doing?!?

Please can that plane say “Never play Jordan Ayew again”?

We’ve not. Full backs tuck in and compact the box.

Either him or James.

Aribo that’s dog muck

We all knew it would!

Mavididi has covered a list of ground tonight, pressed in patterns with Daka and it’s worked well. As talented as Monga is, he’s not ready.

I feel like Aribo should just be called the Fridge, as he’s an absolute unit.

Mavididi doesn’t help Luke Thomas at all.

I’m still convinced he told Cooper, Van Nistelrooy and Cifuentes that they had crap tactics and why are you playing me next to Soumare; who is utter dog muck.

Ayew needs to get across that front post!

FFS ….. Ayew coming on.

I’ve said it before, he gets lumped into the same bucket as Ayew but he offers so much more. He’s a steady player that will go missing in the odd game.

*Elliott and Taggart have entered the chat.

I thought exactly the same. The second we bring him on, we may as well just defend.

I’d like him to “develop” at another football club